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|accepted_name=Brunnichia
|accepted_authority=Banks ex Gaertner
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fruct. Sem. Pl.
|place=1: 213, plate 45, fig. 2. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|common_names=American buckwheat-vine;ladies’-eardrops;eardrop vine;anserine liana
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae;Brunnichia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brunnichia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Morten Thrane Brunnich, 1737–1827, eighteenth-century Danish naturalist
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 216, 479, 480, 483
|treatment_page=page 482
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines,</b> perennial; roots thin, fibrous. <b>Stems</b> scandent, tendril-bearing, glabrous or pubescent; tendrils terminating branches, simple to branched. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, alternate, petiolate; ocrea persistent, chartaceous; blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, paniclelike, usually pedunculate. <b>Pedicels</b> 3-winged, 1 wing more prominent and becoming greatly expanded in fruit, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, (1–)3–5 per ocreate fascicle, base stipelike; perianth accrescent, greenish to greenish yellow, campanulate, indurate, glabrous; tepals 5, connate proximally, petaloid, slightly dimorphic, subequal; stamens 8; filaments distinct, adnate proximally to perianth tube, glabrous; anthers pink to red, oval; styles 3, erect or spreading, distinct; stigmas 3, depressed-capitate. <b>Achenes</b> included in indurate perianth, tan to brown, unwinged, obscurely 3-gonous proximally, 3-gonous distally, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b>: embryo straight. <b>x</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States;w Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species 4 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The African species of <i>Brunnichia</i> sometimes are segregated in the genus Afrobrunnichia Hutchinson & Dalziel.</p>
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name=Brunnichia
|author=Walter C. Holmes
|authority=Banks ex Gaertner
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=se United States;w Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fruct. Sem. Pl.
|publication year=1788
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_1006.xml
|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae
|genus=Brunnichia
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